Celebrities who supported Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have received a lot of criticism in both the UK and the US, but they have also received support from some of America's biggest celebrities.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are friends with Serena Williams, have had access to Tyler Perry's home, and have received encouraging messages from Beyoncé.

And these three are just a handful of the big names who have supported them over the years.

Serena Williams

Meghan and retired tennis player Serena Williams were friends before her relationship with Prince Harry.

When Williams was a guest on Meghan's show, the pair discussed their love for each other. Archetypes The podcast follows the Grand Slam champion's immediate retirement from tennis.

“I just wanted you all to understand what your support means, your support, H's support, the support in every way, because it's been hard, like those times in the locker room when I was really down and wondering, 'Why am I doing this?'” the sports star said.

Beyonce and Jay Z

The music industry power couple posed in front of a painting of Meghan, done in a traditional portrait style, during their Brit Awards acceptance video in February 2019.

And Beyoncé further supported Meghan by texting her after her interview with Oprah Winfrey, saying she had been “chosen to break a generational curse.”

Footage of Meghan receiving and reading the message was captured on a Netflix documentary about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Harry and Meghan.

Chrissy Teigen

Meghan and Teigen met at the DirecTV Beach Bowl at Pier 40 in 2014. what will you do together.

In 2018, the year Meghan and Harry got married, Teigen you Magazine: “I'm a big fan of Meghan in particular. what will you do I was with her and she was lovely, and now people ask me what she was like and I say, “Sorry, no dirty talk. She's lovely.”

Recently, Meghan gifted Teigen a jar of American Riviera Orchard jam, which Teigen shared with her husband, John Legend.

“This may be one of the best meals I've had this year! All I used was rustic bread, salted butter, triple cream brie, thick cut bacon and @americanrivieraorchard jam!” Teigen wrote in an Instagram post.

“The whole thing took about eight minutes,” she added. “I was happy all weekend.”

Mindy Kaling

Actress Mindy Kaling and Meghan Markle Archetypes She appeared on the podcast in 2022 and gushed about her love for the royal family during the recording, saying, “Listen, I would say this is a revelation for me, because my whole life I thought Meghan Markle was this nice, sexy girl who was on top of her game because her mom is super cool.”

In response to Meghan suggesting that she was the smart kid at school, not the pretty one, Kaling added: “But to know that you weren't like that is new to me and probably new to people listening to this.”

Kaling also described Meghan as a friend after meeting Prince Harry at a conference for Better Up, the workplace coaching company that has Harry as its chief impact officer.

Abigail Spencer

Meghan and Spencer worked together suit And the actress is one of the few people from the show with whom Meghan still keeps in contact.

Spencer was also interviewed on the Netflix show. Harry and Meghan In it, she recounted the emotional moment Meghan lost her baby in July 2020, shortly after moving into their Montecito home.

“I was driving over and I was like, 'I'm going to unpack and get settled,'” Spencer said. “Then Meg was waiting outside and I knew something was wrong. And she was showing me our new house and I had very mixed emotions. She was like, 'This is our new house,' but she was like, 'It hurts so much.' She was holding Archie and then she collapsed to the ground.”

Tyler Perry

When the “Madea” star left the palace and Meghan Markle's first move to California in 2020, she offered them her Los Angeles mansion.

Their stay lasted a few months, after which they bought their own home, but left in December 2020 on such good enough terms that they hosted the actor and producer as a guest on a one-off holiday podcast episode, “Archewell Audio.”

He is godfather to her daughter, Princess Lilibeth, and recently spoke about it on a podcast. Talking Off Camera with Kelly Ripa“They have beautiful babies. That's it. They have beautiful children. Archie and Lili are beautiful.”

Elton John

The “Rocket Man” singer and her husband, David Furnish, were friends of Princess Diana and remained close to Harry throughout his life, and introduced him to lawyer David Sherborne, who recommended that Harry hire his own legal team.

The celebrity lawyer would go on to represent Prince Harry in a number of high-profile lawsuits against the British media.

“That was partly down to Elton and David,” Harry wrote. Reserve“At the end of our recent visit, they introduced us to a lawyer they know, a lovely man who knows more about the phone-tapping scandal than anyone I’ve ever met.

“He shared his expertise and open court evidence with me, and when I complained that I wished there was something I could do with it but was being stonewalled at every turn by the Palace, he offered a surprisingly elegant workaround: 'Why not hire your own lawyer?'”

It was the summer of 2019 and they were just months away from leaving the UK and facing a storm of negative press coverage.

Harry wrote about the break: “M and I called Elton John and his husband, David, and confessed: 'We need help. We're going a bit crazy.'”

“Come visit us,” Elton said, referring to their home in France. Summer 2019.
So we did. For a few days we sat on their terraces and soaked up their sunshine.”

George Clooney

George and Amal Clooney attended Harry and Meghan's wedding as guests and even invited them on a vacation to their Lake Como estate in 2018.

The following year, Clooney defended Meghan amid a wave of negative press: “They're following Meghan Markle everywhere. She's being hounded and slandered,” Clooney told reporters at a press conference, according to Australian media. Who magazine.

“She's a woman seven months pregnant who has been hounded, slandered and hounded just like Princess Diana. History is repeating itself.”

Jameela Jamil

The Good Place The star has had multiple spat-outs with British tabloids over his support for Meghan, but later discussed the issue with the duchess in an interview. Archetypes.

“Megan, the amount of shit you've been through is unbelievable,” Jamil said. “It's unbelievable.”

“I've been fighting back on your behalf for years before I even met you because I was outraged at the way this very ordinary, very kind, very decent woman was perverted. That demonization only shows how afraid they are of you.”

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